Yesterday, pursuant to the Congressional Review Act (CRA), the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s arbitration regulation. Passage by the House was the first step in the CRA process to defeat...

Last week, CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’ (CCAF) Anna St. John objected to an unfair class action settlement in Campbell v. Facebook. This case was centered around the theory that Facebook illegally analyzed URLs that users sent over private messages.

CCAF has taken on some egregious settlements, but this one is especially ridiculous. Here are seven reasons why.

If you thought every corporate merger was unique, you’d be wrong. Over 90% of merger deals over $100 million have at least one thing in common: They are challenged in a strike suit—or subject to what essentially amounts to legalized extortion.

On June 5, 2017, CEI argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to stop one example of such...

When companies deceive consumers, the class action device provides a way to compensate those harmed. And if plaintiffs’ lawyers obtain money for the class, they are lawfully entitled to a reasonable percentage of the recovery. But in too many settlements, the same lawyers who rail against...